{"id":965343,"date":"2026-05-16T22:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/965343\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:07:18","slug":"stories-to-make-you-smile-from-across-the-west-midlands-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/965343\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories to make you smile from across the West Midlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">With so many serious stories making the headlines, the news can sometimes feel overwhelming &#8211; but there are still uplifting moments to be found in the West Midlands, and we want to celebrate and share them.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This week we spotted prom dresses being donated to pupils at a Birmingham school, also the bust of a celebrated music promoter and Coventry City&#8217;s success being celebrated by a group of fans in Uganda. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Take a look at some of our positive news stories from across the region:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With so many serious stories making the headlines, the news can sometimes feel overwhelming &#8211; but there are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":965344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-965343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}